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Pharmacists with the right training will soon be able to prescribe certain medicines outside the Group Practice Medical Scheme in move designed to alleviate pressure on GHA.
Pharmacists with the right training will soon be able to prescribe certain medicines outside the Group Practice Medical Scheme in move designed to alleviate pressure on GHA.

Pharmacists with the right training will soon be able to prescribe certain medicines. The government has passed legislation in order to alleviate pressure on GPs at the Primary Care Centre and St Bernard’s Hospital. Health Minister, Neil Costa, told GBC the scheme will not cover controlled drugs such as Valium. He said it will not be subsidized by the Health…

Midwives now able to prescribe additional medicines
Midwives now able to prescribe additional medicines

The list of medicines midwives can prescribe without calling upon a doctor has been extended, with six new medicines added, including antibiotics. The list of medicines now stands at 29, an increase from the initial list approved in 2014 when new regulations were brought in enabling midwives to act without sending for a doctor, often in urgent circumstances. The regulations…